When you want to quickly use apps without navigating away from your tiled workspace.
Especially transient dialogs, e.g. wifi/file picker. I would create rules in sway/i3 for those to keep them floating.
I've written at length about this topic on HN in the last month, so I'd hate for it to seem like my lil hobby horse, but something I've come to appreciate about the conventional "stacking" window solution of Windows/macOS is that it has a good answer for apps you briefly use.
When you want to quickly use apps without navigating away from your tiled workspace.
Especially transient dialogs, e.g. wifi/file picker. I would create rules in sway/i3 for those to keep them floating.
I've written at length about this topic on HN in the last month, so I'd hate for it to seem like my lil hobby horse, but something I've come to appreciate about the conventional "stacking" window solution of Windows/macOS is that it has a good answer for apps you briefly use.